Archives for the ‘Slacking Off at Work’ Category

Paid time off or vacation/sick pay?

By Lance Haun • Mar 18th, 2008 • Category: Slacking Off at Work

Evil HR Lady puts out an interesting post about PTO versus vacation/sick time.
I know it is foolish but I always assume that HR people hate vacation/sick time and love PTO if only for the simple administration of the policy. If you are gone, we use time from your PTO bank. End of story. I love [...]



A return to normalcy

By Lance Haun • Jan 2nd, 2008 • Category: Slacking Off at Work

I am happy to have the winter holidays safely and surely behind us all. It means more blogging for you to read (from everyone, including me). It means more reliable co-workers (thankfully).
What is always entertaining about January are the New Year resolutions people make. The jump in sales at gyms, fitness equipment manufacturers, and [...]



Every day is different on Woot

By Lance Haun • Nov 28th, 2007 • Category: Slacking Off at Work

Woot.com is one of my favorite sites on the web. I visit it at least once a day and sometimes multiple times per day.
Why do I love it?
Every day is different. But… (here is the clincher) it is predictably different.  After all, I go to the site at 10:00pm my time and there is a [...]



Is Google (2008) turning into Microsoft (1998)?

By Lance Haun • Nov 13th, 2007 • Category: Adventures in (Mis)Management, Slacking Off at Work

No says Scott Berkun. But…
There are problems with any company growing large. A culture shift from going from small to big. Many people talk about how great rapid growth is and obviously rapid growth usually follows other good things (like growing sales and revenues). There is a dynamic culture shift happens when companies get bigger. [...]



If you want to be good at something, do it

By Lance Haun • Nov 4th, 2007 • Category: Slacking Off at Work

Do it over and over again.
Do it until it hurts. And then get up and do it again.
The first thing I ever wanted to get good at was playing basketball. My Dad had put up a hoop on our garage and he would play out there with his friends. And I knew I wanted to [...]